struggler said:
We have previously had a big problem with owners/residents using the visitors car parks. We kept a record of dates that this occurred for each car (Flat Chat has advised taking photos as well). We issued a notice to all residents that the visitors car parking was just for that, visitors, and that residents could not use it for parking without written permission. Then we sent them the NSW Strata By Laws regarding parking in visitors car spaces.
I believe I also read in Flat Chat that if the provision of visitors car spaces was a condition of the development approval from council, then these spaces cannot be used for anything other than visitors, even if the EC and OC want to, as this would contravene the development approval?!
We also found effective the leaving of notes under the doors of the offenders stating that “we have noticed that car XXX-XXX has been sighted parking in the visitors car spots without permission on XX/XX/XX…” and list all the dates. Any resident who has received this note has quickly removed his/her car and it hasn’t returned (except for the resident who has 4 cars and thinks that we will not notice when the other one is there). We have had to, for a couple of serious offenders, issue a notice to comply. But they quickly stopped then and have been good since.
Our EC is open to any resident who may have a need to use these car spots if they ask. But, despite many using them over the years, there has not been one request to use them. But it has been great since the last notices went out. Can it finally be sinking in?
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Thanks for the advice….our strata manager advised us that unless we know the specific details of the offenders ( and not just car rego numbers) it would be impossible to issue notices to comply.
How do we get around this problem ? i.e. we don't know the names or unit number of the people who park in the visitors space ( there are 65 units in the building !).
We have tried the notice on windscreens but there are some that still keep doing it.